IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ortrsc/v12y1978i1p58-79.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Attempt to Characterize Traffic in Metropolitan Areas

Author

Listed:
  • Man-Feng Chang

    (General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan)

  • Robert Herman

    (General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan)

Abstract

An attempt has been made to explore the differences and the similarities in traffic characteristics among various metropolitan areas using a large observational data base. The results show that speed distribution functions, including the percent of time stopped and average speed are traffic attributes that are useful in characterizing traffic on various roadways. In terms of the average speed and the percent of time stopped the character of the traffic in several metropolitan areas has been compared and found to be different, although the levels of acceleration used by drivers are similar. Relations appear to exist between the average speed and a number of other traffic variables, such as acceleration noise, coefficient of variation of speed, and stop time which are independent of the area studied. Therefore, among all the mentioned variables average speed is particularly useful in measuring the “quality” of traffic in different areas on various roadway types. Based on information on average speeds, the extent to which “traffic quality” might affect fuel consumption in different metropolitan areas has been estimated.

Suggested Citation

  • Man-Feng Chang & Robert Herman, 1978. "An Attempt to Characterize Traffic in Metropolitan Areas," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 12(1), pages 58-79, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:12:y:1978:i:1:p:58-79
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.12.1.58
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.12.1.58
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/trsc.12.1.58?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jeffrey R. Kenworthy, 2020. "Passenger Transport Energy Use in Ten Swedish Cities: Understanding the Differences through a Comparative Review," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-27, July.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:12:y:1978:i:1:p:58-79. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.